[Ads-l] "Westsplaining"

[Laurence Horn]

Hits for "Eurosplaining", with essentially the same meaning (although
technically excluding North America), also go back at least a couple of
years.

LH

On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 5:13 PM Nancy Friedman <wordworking at gmail.com> wrote:

> New Republic, March 4, 2022:
>
> “Eastern European online circles have started using a new term to describe
> this phenomenon of people from the Anglosphere loudly foisting their
> analytical schema and political prescriptions onto the region:
> westsplaining.”
>
> "The American Pundits Who Can't Resist Westplaining Ukraine"
>
> https://newrepublic.com/article/165603/carlson-russia-ukraine-imperialism-nato
>
> Built on the example of “mansplaining” (ADS Word of the Year for 2012),
> which also begat whitesplaining, privilege-splaining, dogsplaining, etc.
>
> It’s not entirely new. I found earlier usages of “westsplaining” in
> reference to Afghanistan and the Balkans as well as Ukraine. And here’s a
> citation from 2014:
>
> “I’m tired of a certain faction of Western liberals, especially white guys,
> Westsplaining about how anti-Muslim bigotry and Western colonialism and
> imperialism and international geopolitics provide *essential context* for
> understanding the sources of Muslim problems...”
>
> https://www.theexmuslim.com/2014/04/16/the-racism-of-the-white-wolf-who-cried-islamophobia/
>
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